Arts / Cultural / Museums

Completed: August 14, 2009
Final Contract Amount: $12,007,886.00

A new 20,000 sf performing arts facility for the Acadiana Center for the Arts. The $11 million addition includes a 300-seat multi-faceted world class theater equipped with recording equipment for audiovisual productions. The multi-purpose building is outfitted with movable seating, state of the art sound, lighting and air-conditioning systems and world-class acoustics.

Completed: November 2004
Final Contract Amount: $ 34,532,388

The Shaw Center for the Arts is a six-story, 125,000 square foot complex located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge. The Center houses the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, the LSU School of Art Gallery, the 325-seat multipurpose Manship Theatre, classrooms, a rooftop sushi restaurant and a park. The skin of the Shaw Center for the Arts is made of translucent channel glass manufactured in Germany by Glasfabrik Lamberts. The aluminum-and-glass building contrasts with the city's historic streetscape, but incorporates the original brick façade of a 1930's Art Deco parking garage, over which the center is cantilevered.

Completed: November 4, 2006
Final Contract Amount: $ 6,738,085

The Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is located at the gateway to the main campus, facing a Louisiana Plantation House reproduction by noted architect A. Hays Town. The building exterior is composed of a glazed glass curtain wall which forms a reflective backdrop for the Town structure and presents a sleek flank to visitors entering the museum. The gallery and support space are constructed of honed Cordosa limestone and clear maple floors that lead through pure white gallery volumes. The museum provides a changing exhibits gallery of 5,000 square feet within a total pavilion area of over 30,000 square feet.